Dr. Yitan Li is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Seattle University. After earning a Masters degree at Missouri State in 2002, Dr. Lee earned a second Masters degree at the University of Missouri and completed a Ph.D in Politics and International Relations at the University of Southern California in 2008. At Seattle University he is the Director, of the Global Awareness Program.

Dr. Li’s professional interests include International Relations, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Political Economy, East Asian Politics, Chinese Politics, Chinese Foreign Policy, and U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations. 2014 has been an eventful year with three academic publications: “US Economic Sanctions against China: Explaining Sanction Effectiveness from a Cultural Perspective” in Asian Perspective, “Constructing Peace in the Taiwan Strait: A Constructivist Analysis of the Changing Dynamics of Identities and Nationalisms” in Journal of Contemporary China, and “At the Nexus of New Challenges: China’s Leadership Change and Cross-Strait Relations” in Fudan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.